ENDURANCE in a Sentence

Learn ENDURANCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
248 example sentences for ENDURANCE, such as:
1. The pain was almost too great to endure.
2. Thus she mounted to endurance and surcease.
3. She was pushed beyond her powers of endurance.
4. She showed great endurance in the face of pain.
5. This irritated Scarlett almost beyond endurance.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ENDURANCE
endurance
 n.  a state of surviving; remaining alive
 n.  the power to withstand hardship or stress
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She would have preferred a loud scream to silent endurance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  I always felt that women had a hardness and endurance unknown to men, despite the pretty idea taught me in childhood that women are frail, tender, sensitive creatures.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  I have a deep and impersonal admiration for your endurance, Scarlett, and I do not like to see your spirit crushed beneath too many millstones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  This irritated Scarlett almost beyond endurance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  Thus she mounted to endurance and surcease.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  She was then fifty-five years old, a strong woman, of unusual endurance.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
8  That long trip through the deep snow had taken all the endurance out of him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
9  By and by they would have their revenge, though, for the thing was getting beyond human endurance, and the people would rise and murder the packers.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  We were worked fully up to the point of endurance.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  He began to exaggerate the endurance, the skill, and the valor of those who were coming.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  "Well," said St. Clare, in a tone of dry endurance.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  What endurance too, and what courage he displayed within the wooden horse, wherein all the bravest of the Argives were lying in wait to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
14  I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  She was pushed beyond her powers of endurance.
2  Goaded beyond endurance, she turned on him and hit out.
3  She showed great endurance in the face of pain.
4  He used to astound his friends with feats of physical endurance.
5  Running a marathon is seen by many as the ultimate test of endurance.
6  He showed remarkable endurance throughout his illness.
7  Through hard work and endurance, we will complete this project.
8  I honor endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
9  It was the latest stage in Race Across America, a coast-to-coast relay bicycle marathon through deserts, mountains and plains that is one of the most formidable endurance events in the world.
10  In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure.
11  The pain was almost too great to endure.
12  It seemed impossible that anyone could endure such pain.
13  Rather than being hoodwinked, I would endure anything.
14  They had to endure a long wait before the case came to trial.
15  Truth is honest, truth is sure; Truth is strong and must endure.